{"id":243825,"date":"2017-01-05T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=243825"},"modified":"2017-01-05T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:00:47","slug":"magnitude-7-2-quake-hits-near-fiji-tsunami-alert-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/magnitude-7-2-quake-hits-near-fiji-tsunami-alert-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 7.2 quake hits near Fiji; tsunami alert issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NADI, Fiji<\/strong> (AP)\u2014Authorities say a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit near the Fiji Islands, causing a tsunami warning for parts of the Pacific Ocean. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake hit a part of the ocean about 227 kilometers southwest of Nadi. The agency says the quake is 10 kilometers deep. <\/p>\n<p>Radio New Zealand reports that people have been evacuating Nadi since the earthquake. Nadi, on Fiji\u2019s main island, is a city of about 42,000 and a hub for tourism. <\/p>\n<p>The agency says a tsunami warning has been issued for parts of the Pacific located within 300 kilometers of the quake. But no such warning has been issued for the Hawaiian Islands. <\/p>\n<p>A 2004 quake and tsunami killed a total of 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Aceh, Indonesia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NADI, Fiji (AP)\u2014Authorities say a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit near the Fiji Islands, causing a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[54,14982,6361,2618],"class_list":["post-243825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-agency","tag-fiji-islands","tag-hawaiian-islands","tag-nadi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}